Its been largely dire for 3 season. This season has had maybe 2 good episodes, the others passable. The Andy/Erin love story is possibly one of the worst ever put on tv, there was more chemistry between Andy and Angela. Robert California and Nellie are probably the two unfunniest characters ever on the show. Jim starting some company has provided zero laughs and the way theyve created drama between him and Pam is laughable just to have them reconcile in the finale. The show used to have at least some subtlety in the earlier seasons now its just Kevin walking into walls and Andy acting like a poor version of Michael Scott. Rant over.

but the season 6 ones are all scratched and kept dying during the Niagara episode :(

I bought it from HMV in Cardiff just after Christmas, but don't have a receipt. Is it worth seeking a replacement, or should I just shell out another £10? The scratches have happened because of how the discs are layered in the box, and where they've overlapped they've rubbed (or at least that's what it looks like) so I hope it's just a one off.

here is the thing that doesn't make sense about the whole current pam/jim anguish storyline: why does it make any sense at all that pam would be so stubbornly desperate to stay in a town that has been consistently portrayed as dull and depressing, in an office where the whole point is that everyone is a bit of a dick, when we've been given no reason to think she has really strong social links or deep friendships or whatever keeping her there? the point of the setting of the office has always been that vaguely depressing stuck-in-a-rut grey rubbishness of it and one of the failings of the american version has always been the attempts to crowbar in that american sheen of it's-not-so-bad-really camaraderie and hometown loyalty, and of all the characters pam is not one that makes sense to crowbar into that narrative

all that meta stuff makes sense now i suppose. they should have just kept up that stuff with them trying to avoid the cameras until the last episode was just half an hour of silent working in the office with everyone refusing to say anything